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Tape 45.1
LESTER CROCKER
Kendrick; b. 1899
vice-president of ^*ti^^(c bu>\L •75 hour
minute page
Side A
00 Introduction.
01 Born in Kendrick, horse-and-buggy doctor. Dirt
and mud roads. Weather.
03 Forest fires and firefighting. Smokechasers and
lookouts. Saddleponies and packstring to get to
a fire. Fire around Kendrick in 1930's started by
train in Little Bear Canyon. 1904 Kendrick fire,
business section sets up in tents.
10 Kendrick school.
13 Hunting and fishing. Plentiful game in early days.
Fires helped habitat for big game. Lester's family
ate lots of wild meat. Fish were plentiful. Steel-head
and rainbows. Fishing trips on the Potlatch.
23 Father was a carriage-maker and blacksmith. Retired
to a gunshop. Blacksmith business kind of fizzled
out with arrival of automobiles.
27 Runaways. Lester in a runaway wagon as a child.
29 Weather change from early times. Kids winter games.
Cutting ice and icehouses.
Side B
00 Icehouses (continued). Buying ice all summer, making
ice cream.
02 Weekend fishing trips. Bicycling then walking.
Salting fish.
05 Carrying the mail on American Ridge. Automobile by
summer, team by winter. Snow sometimes too deep for
teams. Driving through fields when the road is drifted
in.
with Rob Moore
Duly 12, 1973

Digital format copyright: University of Idaho Library. Original Copyright: Latah County Historical Society.

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Tape 45.1
LESTER CROCKER
Kendrick; b. 1899
vice-president of ^*ti^^(c bu>\L •75 hour
minute page
Side A
00 Introduction.
01 Born in Kendrick, horse-and-buggy doctor. Dirt
and mud roads. Weather.
03 Forest fires and firefighting. Smokechasers and
lookouts. Saddleponies and packstring to get to
a fire. Fire around Kendrick in 1930's started by
train in Little Bear Canyon. 1904 Kendrick fire,
business section sets up in tents.
10 Kendrick school.
13 Hunting and fishing. Plentiful game in early days.
Fires helped habitat for big game. Lester's family
ate lots of wild meat. Fish were plentiful. Steel-head
and rainbows. Fishing trips on the Potlatch.
23 Father was a carriage-maker and blacksmith. Retired
to a gunshop. Blacksmith business kind of fizzled
out with arrival of automobiles.
27 Runaways. Lester in a runaway wagon as a child.
29 Weather change from early times. Kids winter games.
Cutting ice and icehouses.
Side B
00 Icehouses (continued). Buying ice all summer, making
ice cream.
02 Weekend fishing trips. Bicycling then walking.
Salting fish.
05 Carrying the mail on American Ridge. Automobile by
summer, team by winter. Snow sometimes too deep for
teams. Driving through fields when the road is drifted
in.
with Rob Moore
Duly 12, 1973